UNHCR seeks additional $21.4 million to help Congolese refugees in Uganda
The extra funding is needed largely to help people who have flooded into Uganda's Bundibugyo district to escape conflict in North Kivu province since July.
Congolese nun wins UNHCR award for work with displaced women
Sister Angelique Namaika has helped transform the lives of more than 2,000 women and girls who were forced from their homes and abused by rebels in northeastern DRC
Congo rules out amnesty for top M23 rebels
Rebels who've taken part in multiple rebellions, are on international sanctions lists or have committed war crimes will not be granted amnesty
OP-ED: Financing of Disaster Risk Reduction Needs Urgent Reform
LONDON, Sep 18 (IPS) - Over 20 years, disaster losses in developing nations have amounted to 862 billion dollars (a considerable under-estimate). During this period the international community has spent just 13.5 billion dollars on disaster risk reduction (DRR), equivalent to 40 cents of every 100 dollars of development aid this has to change.
Congolese nun named winner of prestigious Nansen Refugee Award
Sister Angélique Namaika wins for her work helping the survivors of displacement and abuse by the Lord's Resistance Army in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The shared bond between Nansen winner and those she helps
Inspirational Roman Catholic nun, Sister Angélique Namaika, regards the girls she has assisted as her daughters, whose broken lives she has helped to rebuild.
Once Congolese refugees in CAR, now they shelter former hosts fleeing CAR
Congolese civilians in northern provinces have repeatedly fled to Central African Republic over the years, but now 40,000 refugees from CAR have flooded into DRC.